OJ SIMPSON – INNOCENT??

New information is suggesting that OJ may have covered up for a family member in the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The new theory is that the eldest son  of OJ, “ Jason” who was 24 at the time is the real murderer. This is the suggestion of Mr. William Dear, a detective who has devoted 17 years investigating this famous Hollywood murder case.  Mr Dear has unraveled each piece of the puzzle and along with material discoveries concluded that OJ Simpson covered up for his son. He also claims it can now be proven.  By going through trash and old storage facilities he has come up with definitive evidence of his claims. Among items found was a hunters knife owned by Jason and checked out by forensics who suggested it to be the  murder weapon.  During the initial investigation and trial the weapon was never discovered.  Jason Simpson was never checked out by police.

Jason was diagnosed with “ rage” issues and abuse of his girlfriend shortly before the killings, Mr. Dear says.  Heavy drug usage and a diary confession of  “his year of the knife” seems to point to his possible involvement in the murders. He is currently a chef living in Miami.

Bobby Womack: Another Unsung

Singer Bobby Womack,  famous for his soul shaking songs in the 70′s, has opened up about the death of his infant son, a death that thrust him into a drug filled hell.

Mr Womack lost one son Vincent to suicide, while struggling with the death of his brother, murdered by a jealous female friend.  In 1978 at the same time, “Truth’, Bobby’s first child with wife Regina, fell into a coma at their Woodland Hills home in California and died a week later.

The legendary singer says he never truly got over the tragedy and still feels responsible for leaving the baby alone on a bed.

In a sincere and heart wrenching interview, Womack states, “I lost a son which was my fault and the only reason I can talk about it now is because I know what I’m saying. I’m not hiding behind anything.

“Just returning from a convention one night, I was telling my
lady, ‘Baby, you’ve gotta get up, I’ve got something to show you!’ And she replied, ‘Can we do this tomorrow? You know the baby…’ “I said, ‘That little baby can’t move. He can’t even walk. He’s taking five minutes to hold his head up…” So she jumps up and I continued to tell her all these stories… It was no more than two minutes before she said, ‘OK, go and get my baby.”

“I went running in for the baby. He had fallen down
between the bed and wall and suffocated and that was the biggest hurt ever in my life.”

This tragedy thrust Womack into hard drugs, soon robbing him of his creative edge - he spent decades trying to get the desire for songwriting back.

He say’s, “That death led to ‘There’s gotta be a better
way… and from there, away I went. Every time I heard somebody had died-JohnnieTaylor or somebody else-instead of going to the funeral, I’d go and get high.

“Eventually I reached out to God and said, ‘Look, I’m in
trouble. I don’t even know who I am.’ I wanted to get the true feeling back…
My passion for music never died; I was just trying to figure out how you get it back.”

African American Women; Illness and Wealth

Racial inequality imposes an additional risk burden on people of
color.  Infant mortality rates for Blacks remain more than twice
as high as among white Americans.  However birth outcomes are usually better among those with higher education and income.

African American  women with college degrees are still likely to give birth prematurely than are white women who haven’t even finished high school. Through research an interesting explanation has come to light: the  chronic stress of racism can be embedded in our body, this takes a huge toll on black families and their children even before they leave the womb.

Interestingly,  African Immigrants coming to this country have the same healthy birth rates as white women.  It seems when African woman come to the United States it only takes one generation for their daughters to begin having babies with the same low birth weight.

Research and  personal stories show obstacles and racial inequities in society as reasons why this occurs, but they also point the way to new possibilities as African Americans and communities organize and gain control over their destinies and their health.

Can Oprah Save the Own Network

Here we are six months into the official Own network launch and things might be going too well for what was anticipated as a monumental tv viewing  event.

Recently Ms Winfrey acknowledged she faces challenges in turning around the channel’s performance.  So far the network seems to be a combination of  Oprah shows and reality programs from other networks.  People had high hopes for the network not only because of  ownership by a successful black female billionaire, but the brilliant job she did with the Oprah show for twenty-five years changing people’s lives.

 Has she taken on too much this time,  and can she ever relinquish enough control to someone else long enough to make this more than just another redundant channel on the tv network. Many are starting to doubt she can do it. One cannot help but notice there is not much racial diversity in her programming and almost no subjects that capture the male interest.

Oprah and friends might consider the need for a Black news perspective in media.  It would be a real contribution to Blacks around the globe to see and hear our news from our perspective.  It would be a big step in moving toward cohesiveness in our communities, in just 30 minutes a day.

African American Vacation Enclaves Dissappearing

African American children running along the sundrenched beach, stopping at times to dig for clams  in the sand.  Playing until the blazing sun sunk into the bay, are dreams of days gone by.

Youthful summers with the family vacationing in Azurest, Sag Harbor, and Ninevah Beach all running parallel each other along Gardiner Bay. 

African Americans from New York City, Philadelphia, Maryland, Chicago or anyplace else you happened to live during the rest of the year, vacationed here. Cottages were owned by family or  folks who were life long acquaintances and became uncles and aunts. These extended members included scholars, lawyers, entrepreneurs,
entertainers and executives. They were all African American communities.  Many black children from wealthy families who were with Caucasians during the year could bond with their own during the summer.

Blacks purchased these homes in large waves during the 30′s when we were prohibited from buying in almost all other  area’s of the country. For the first time in more than 70 years, this tradition is fading. Today, about 30 percent of the residents are not black, up dramatically from decades past when you scarcely found a single white on these beaches.
Originally home to black Whalers,  current notable residents are B. Smith, Earl Graves and Susan L. Taylor.  Colin Powell summered here in his youth, as did Lena Horne and Langston Hughes and before passing  away, lawyer Johnny Cochran had a home here.

“This is precious land, and we intend to keep as much of it as we can” states 1904 Yale graduate Dr William Pickens Sr., who in 1930 laid the roots for 4 generations in Sag Harbor.